Fabien Barthez

Fabien Barthez
Fabien Barthez
Personnel
Surname	Fabien Alain Barthez
birthday	June 28, 1971
place of birth	Lavelanet ,  France
size	183 cm
position	goal
Juniors
Years	station
1985-1986	Lavelanet
1986-1991	Toulouse FC
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1990-1992	Toulouse FC	26 (0)
1990-1991	Toulouse FC B	6 (0)
1992-1995	Olympique Marseille	142 (0)
1992-1993	Olympique Marseille B	6 (0)
1995-2000	AS Monaco	143 (0)
2000-2004	Manchester United	92 (0)
2003-2004	→ Olympique Marseille (loan)	20 (0)
2004-2006	Olympique Marseille	54 (0)
2006-2007	FC Nantes	14 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1994-2006	France	87 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Fabien Alain Barthez (born June 28, 1971 in Lavelanet , Ariège ) is a former French football goalkeeper and current automobile racing driver .

Soccer

society

Barthez played as a professional for Toulouse FC , AS Monaco , Manchester United , Olympique Marseille , FC Nantes and in the French national team (Équipe tricolore) . After he could not find a new club in the summer of 2006, Barthez announced his resignation in early October 2006, but two months later he revised and signed a contract with FC Nantes. There, too, he resigned in April 2007 after allegedly drunk fans attacked him after a lost league game and involved him in a fight. Barthez left town with his family just a day later.

National team

Barthez played his first international match for the French national team in 1994. However, he only became a goalkeeper after the 1996 European Championship . He is the second goalkeeper after Peter Shilton who has not conceded a goal in ten World Cup games. He equalized the record in the semi-finals at the 2006 World Cup against Portugal, Marco Materazzi prevented an increase in the final to eleven games with his goal to make it 1-1. Alongside Sepp Maier , Dino Zoff and Iker Casillas, he is one of only four goalkeepers who have become both world and European champions. He is also one of the few goalkeepers to have played two World Cup finals. In addition, he was with France in the European Championship in 2000 and in the Confederation Cup final in 2003.

Style of play

Barthez was a very fast and agile goalkeeper and repeatedly showed his exceptional talent with his spectacular saves on the line. One of his weaknesses was high balls. He also left the 5-meter area at a noticeable speed and tried to intercept cross balls.

Doping ban

During a doping control on October 3, 1995, Barthez was found to have had hashish consumption. This does not promote performance, but leads to "positive disinhibition". Barthez was banned from the French Football Association for four months in January 1996.

Title wins and awards

• UEFA Champions League : 1993
• French champion 1997, 2000
• World Champion: 1998
• Étoile d'Or : 1998
• European Champion 2000
• Election to the UEFA Allstars Team of the European Football Championship: 2000
• World goalkeeper of the year 2000
• Confederation Cup Winner: 2003
• English champion : 2001, 2003
• Vice World Champion: 2006
• 1st place in France Football's leaderboard for French goalkeepers (October 2006)
• Knight of the French Legion of Honor

Others

• His father, Alain Barthez , who died in November 2009 , was a successful rugby player who played an international match. Fabien Barthez himself is the father of three children.
• In 2013 he was honored with an honorary award (“Champion des champions d'honneur”) by the French sports daily L'Équipe .

Motorsport

In 2008 Barthez made his debut as a car racing driver in the Porsche Matmut Carrera Cup France and completed a total of eight races in that championship season as well as the two races of the THP Spider Cup as part of the Grand Prix de Pau . After appearing sporadically in various series in 2009, including again for two races in the French Carrera Cup, he took part in six races in the French GT championship the following year - with a third place in Dijon together with his partner Morgan Moullin-Traffort - as well as the Lamborghini Super Trofeo race weekend in Le Castellet . In 2011 he drove back five races in the French GT Championship and also contested the first Grand Prix de Pau Electrique .

Motorsport statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2014	Team Sofrev ASP	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Anthony Pons	Soheil Ayari	Rank 27
2016	Panis-Barthez Competition	Ligier JS P2	Timothé Buret	Paul-Loup Chatin	Rank 12
2017	Panis-Barthez Competition	Ligier JS P2	Timothé Buret	Nathanaël Berthon	failure	accident

Web links

Commons : Fabien Barthez  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Fabien Barthez in the database of the Fédération Française de Football (French)
• Motorsport career statistics from Fabien Barthez (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Report of April 30, 2007  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) from L'Équipe
2. ↑ ^{a b} Football World Cup in Germany: Goalkeeper presentation: Barthez, Fabien ( Memento from September 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Positively disinhibited Der Spiegel November 30, 1998
4. ↑ Barthez va faire ses debuts in the Porsche Carrera Cup. (No longer available online.) Ffsa.org, January 18, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 2, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
5. ↑ 3 questions for footballer turned racer: Fabien Barthez. (No longer available online.) Motorstv.com, June 12, 2008, archived from the original on November 18, 2008 ; Retrieved February 2, 2012 . 
6. ^ Porsche Matmut Carrera Cup France - Results Classement Général. porsche.com, accessed on February 2, 2012 . 
7. ↑ Avantage au Graff Racing! (No longer available online.) Ffsa.org, May 9, 2010, archived from the original on May 29, 2010 ; Retrieved February 2, 2012 . 
8. ↑ Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo Returns To Paul Ricard. racecar.com, July 1, 2010, accessed February 2, 2012 . 
9. ^ Grand Prix de Pau - 1st Grand Prix Electrique. (PDF; 76 kB) (No longer available online.) Grandprixdepau.com, archived from the original on December 4, 2016 ; Retrieved February 2, 2012 .